June 2013 – Martha had the honour to be invited to speak at the annual Summer Gathering of the Catholic Association of Performing Artists in Bedford St. in Covent Garden, London. The talk, ‘From Silence to Voice’, included her experiences of going on tour in South Africa with the play “And Then They Came For…

Dec 2012- Martha is currently in South Africa for the South African Tour of ‘And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Eva Schloss and Anne Frank’. The play tells the poignant story of Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister . Eva  travels to South Africa to answer Q &…

Nov 2012 – ‘It’s Primrose Hill, it’s Martha Van Der Bly, it’s sociology, it’s acting, it’s being Dutch” – Listen to Martha’s first Podcast on acting, sociology and ‘Dutchness’. Interview by Professor Toby Miller, professor at University of California, Riverside and renowned author of ‘Global Hollywood’. You can listen to the Podcast here: #Martha Van Der Bly…

Jan – March 2012 . Martha is performing in London as ‘Eva Schloss’, Ann Frank’s stepsister in  ‘And Then They Came for Me’, telling Eva’s story. All performances in schools across London are followed by a Q & A with Eva Schloss. The show was filmed for Channel 4 by Minnow Films. ‘Living with the…

Oct -Nov 2011 – Martha is performing ‘And Then They Came For Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank‘ .  The play tells the moving story of Eva Schloss, Auschwitz surviver and Ann Frank’s posthumous stepsister. Performances are at the Chinese Embassy in London on 1 Nov, in the Russian Embassy on 12 December  and…

September 2011- This month Martha is honoured to perform in the staged reading of a new piece by Booker-prize winner and one of Africa’s most prominent writers, the Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. “The Heart’s Tent is Broken” in on in the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. Martha is also performing as Smellgha, the poetic…